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Mosquito genome leaves researchers itching for more

As a second mosquito species is sequenced, news@nature.com looks back to see what these genomes do for science.

Read the briefing here.

Posted by Nicola Jones on May 17, 2007 07:00 PM |

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Hi,
I was bit concerned after I read this story. I work on one of the strains of A.gambiae for my Ph.D project. This story mentions that the already published genome sequence of A. gambiae is now a mixture or hybrid of two subspecies. I use mass spec and genome sequence to identify some proteins. We have also had problems with gene annotation. How does this effect my results.
Any suggestions regarding this will be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Sowmya.

Posted by: Sowmya Govindappa | May 19, 2007 07:04 PM

In the final section on other "What about other insects?", it should be noted that ticks are not insects. Both are arthropods with ticks in the class Arachnida and insects in Insecta.

Posted by: Eric Lyons | May 20, 2007 04:11 PM

I would suggest that you put insecticides in this sentence instead of herbicides:
"The traditional way of screening for insecticide resistance relied on testing individual mosquitoes against many, many individual herbicides"

Would be more appropriate I think

Best regards

Nicolas

Posted by: Nicolas Vanhaelen | May 21, 2007 08:49 AM

Dear doctors
I read the story of Mosquito genome ,I consider these results very critically important because this will open the way to understand why some mosquito species are susciptable and others are resistant for the transmission of bacterial, protozoal, and viral diseases ,Best wishes.

Posted by: Mostafa Hassan | May 21, 2007 10:06 PM

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